Archive Tucson oral history spotlight: Larry Doby's Glove
Feb. 5, 2026
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Frank Sotomayor takes us to 1948, when the Cleveland Indians visited Tucson and Sotomayor’s father, a gardener at the El Conquistador Hotel, was given a baseball glove by a passing player.
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Archive Tucson is a living and growing collection of audio interviews about life and change in Tucson and Southern Arizona. University Libraries Oral Historian and Videographer, Aengus Anderson, has spent more than five years interviewing 100+ people and recording their stories about our city.